The yellow jeep started out as a surrogate motorcycle, and became a form of ‘cycle’ in its own right.
Back in New Mexico, I get on the real bike again….back in the saddle. Leave the Jeep for the first time in weeks.
I live part time in a section of desert that – from the interstate [...]
I’ve been in the transition from motion to stationary for 5 days. Still can’t watch TV, but have been getting news from web every day.
Butterfly economics and ‘black swans’ indicate that large events always come from seemingly insignificant events.
This news story is perhaps the most important of anything going on in the world right [...]
Here are some of the more distant overhead fireworks shots, about a mile or so away.
You can really buy these rockets. Expensive but you can buy them.
This is a new one for me….blogging from a tent.
Many campgrounds now have wireless. That’s one of the key points of this trip…to be at the edge of electricity and see what innovations are happening.
Home-bought fireworks exploding over my head. No Eastern restrictions here.
Rode across Montana and half of Idaho today. Was [...]
Lest my notes sound too negative on the nation of my origin…..
In the land where time is measured, I just realized it is the “4th of July”.
When driving for hours I had been trying to see if I could remember any of the following document. It has all kinds of flaws and [...]
After less than 24 hours back in US, the main thing that hits me is the amount of ‘regulation’ in the ‘land of the free.’
The ‘don’t sue me’ boilerplate in the lodging form for a motel is staggering waste of trees.
Food purveyors must provide web and mail documentation that there are actually dead animals [...]
Beautiful mountain.
Gorgeous lake.
Trees.
Bear.
Beautiful mountain.
Gorgeous lake.
Trees.
Caribou.
Beautiful mountain.
Gorgeous lake.
Trees.
Bear.
Beautiful mountain.
Gorgeous lake.
Trees.
Grande Cache, BC
Great people.
Bear.
Beautiful mountain.
Gorgeous lake.
Trees.
RV’s.
Beautiful mountain.
Gorgeous lake.
Trees.
Motorcycles.
Beautiful mountain.
Gorgeous lake.
Trees.
Aggressive people in gas station.
Lake Louise, BC
Aggressive people in RV’s from South.
Beautiful mountain.
Gorgeous lake.
Trees.
Border.
Great guard.
Beautiful mountain.
Gorgeous lake.
Trees.
Dairy Queen Blizzard.
2 of 5 vacation homes for sale “price reduced”
Echo Boomers of Cowboy Hippies
Whitefish, MT
No motels but available Condo – BAM [...]
Some random notes about things not included in this journal….
I have been right in the middle of mining and drilling country for the better part of 9 days.
Over the past 5 years this has become familiar territory for me on four continents.
If you have never been in such areas, it is almost impossible to conceive [...]
Still doing only quick entries. Covering almost 600 miles per day. Storing notes for later…
Today…..
In an earlier post I said the ‘lower’ ALCAN had been domesticated. Turns out that is only the section nearest Whitehorse, YT – that is, nearest the ferries at Skagway and Haines. I was wondering how so [...]
I’m not an expert, but from what I’ve seen in the last 1000 miles, bears like to poop on the road.
OK, so I’ve gone a bit native here, but the whole point of this exploration is to experience communities of all kinds.
Think about ‘community’ from the bear’s point of view… You’re very territorial, and you [...]
Instructions for covering 300 miles of Arctic dirt road in one morning. Get Jeep with great radio. Add iPod. Do this:
(click to play video):
I spent the day in the sub-arctic and arctic zones pierced by Dempster Highway. For most of the day, this was simply spectacular scenery and great dirt road driving.
Then…I was about to say ‘as the sun sets’….but the sun does not set here again until later in July….then, as the sun circled to a [...]
Several folks asked for shots of Jeep with dirt. This is with top and windows rolled on for the night. Daytime, they are rolled away, and dirt gets everywhere. I think that is how you are supposed to do it….dirt inside and out….which is why they put holes in the floor [...]
Don’t have time to edit pics and transfer notes.
But wanted to say that the Cassiar Highway was a real sleeper – wonderful gem. Spoiled only by those “RV Caravans” who for some reason think they can line up 25 long, slow down and block all passing. I had visions of Conestoga Wagon Trains riding through [...]
Moving too fast to really stop and write, but still having many local vignettes.
Riding into Smithers, BC.
View from front of motel – looks like volcano sunset…
Met these two guys from the UK last night in front of motel. They are taking 6 months to go from Anchorage to Santiago, Chile. See their diary:
http://www.getjealous.com/andymandtonyd [...]
I’m pushing now to get to Arctic. Still almost 2,000 miles away from Canadian Border. Weather is wet and cold. Ride, eat, sleep, ride…. Entries will be brief until I get time to digest notes.
Mountains are beautiful but that means I must zig and zag hundreds of kilometers sideways to get [...]
Still trying to put on miles to leave time for the Arctic, so not enough time to write. Storing notes for later.
I’m in – very familiar – runnin’ mode……no stops just keep moving. Once I finally broke loose o’ Coeur D’Alene (see Jeep servicing entry) I had 9+ hours of forward motion and [...]
Awoke in Twin Falls, ID to cold….really cold. Walked past wet motorcycle parked outside motel at 6:00AM. Been thinking about the difference between taking a motorcycle and a Jeep on my ‘expeditions’.
Bike:
Much more fun to ride 80% of the time. (Jeep with top and doors off almost as much fun, [...]
Only internet connection on wireless phone in campsite last night, so could not file pics until today.
Yesterday a beautiful ride across Colorado into Utah. Lots of notes for other writings.
Big deals of the day….
In a ride that I have taken many times before to the headwaters of the Rio Grand…I saw more than 200 [...]